Why did she not want to talk about covid in order to keep her space 'an escape', aka keep the brand deals in tact, but she's quite happy to all of a sudden start being an activist on a topic never before seen in her content? When it suits her perhaps. Lily's agenda seems more about bashing white people for getting it wrong than sharing a narrative that is solely in support of the current anti racism movement. She has always been a critic of her own audience, but right now she is full on insulting my intelligence and prejudges any intentions I may have as bad and invalid because 1. I need educating, 2. Nevertheless, once educated I have to admit I don't understand and never will understand, 3. I cannot possibly make a judgement on what is a racist act/phrase, or not, because my moral compass is defective, 4. Be more like Lily.
I'm sorry to say that because of how influencers are reacting to this I am really put off getting involved because I am being made to feel dumb and unhelpful, anything I try to do to help could be totally misplaced as I cannot see the right from wrong apparently. I see how continuing the conversation could help to change people's use of language even when somebody has good intentions, but honestly, now the fear of getting it wrong and unintentionally being racist or knowing I may have inadvertently been racist my whole life, how would I know, (similarly how should I know when I've got it right, will Lily let me know?) makes me want to run far, far away from the conversation.